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[email protected] WVU’s Independent Student Newspaper MONDAY FEBRUARY 3, 2020 www.thedaonline.com WVU dairy herd sold to multiple buyers ten were between 86% and 99% Ayr- In October, a second herd of 37 sold at the Pennsylvania Livestock cows. Th e University estimated that BY AVERY LYONS shire, a product of intensive and care- Holstein dairy cows was sold to Auction in Waynesburg, Pennsylva- the cows cost WVU $250,000 a year to PAGE DESIGNER ful breeding by the WVU dairy farm Coons Livestock for $26,400, to be nia, for which WVU received $4,036. maintain, but generate only $100,000 for the century. An earlier DA story sold again to other dairies. Th e av- Th e average selling price for WVU’s annually. On average, each cow cost On a Saturday morning at the reported that WVU’s Ayrshire herd erage selling price for this herd was cows at this auction was $576. the University $4,300 per year and Wayne County fairgrounds, a herd was the oldest dairy herd at any col- $700 per heifer. In total, WVU made $45,712 from brought in about $800 at sale. of cows over 100 years in the mak- lege in the U.S. Seven more Holstein cows were the sale of dairy herds, a total of 58 Matt Wilson, Davis College of Ag- ing was split up and sold to the high- riculture, Natural Resources and De- est bidder.